Re: [SLUG] video downloaders (YouTube, etc.)

From: Mario Lombardo (mario@alienscience.com)
Date: Thu Jul 31 2008 - 09:09:10 EDT


Dylan William Hardison wrote:
> Spake Mario Lombardo on Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 12:12PM +0200:
>
>> What are people using for video downloaders (not just works with
>> YouTube) with Firefox? I want something opensource, free, and runs on
>>
> youtube-dl: http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/
>
> This only works with youtube; I believe there are other scripts for
> google video, etc. Some flash-video-using sites don't need a script, as
> they provide a link to the .flv.
>
>

That won't work since I'd have to surf to the video page with a
qualified browser and then copy the link to the script. After a bit, it
would get cumbersome, especially when trying to dynamically build a
library on the fly. As I stated earlier, I was looking for something
that works with Firefox and Linux. I do appreciate the relatively close
solutions though.

/mario

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